Re: Lua 5.3.4 on Ubuntu For Windows

[Erik Hougaard <erik@...>]

On 27-Sep-17 10:12 PM, Russell Haley wrote:
> Just wanted to say I was able to build and run lua 5.3.4 of Ubuntu for
> Windows. The system is impressively fast and had no lag. However, the
> bash shell is rendered in the cmd window so there is no scroll back,
> and to paste into the window you need to use the right mouse click
> (i.e. to get a command from your browser into your shell window). One
> of the neat features is that you can access the Windows filesystem
> without having to do anything (mounted at /mnt/c/)
The new Linux Subsystem for Windows  "LSW" is really an impressive piece 
of engineering.
They have mapped most of the Linux syscalls to the NT kernel, and it 
just works. I used to have
a Linux VM running for random dev. tasks. After getting the LSW i have 
dropped that.

/Erik